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17 1948

SOCIAL WELFARE ACT, 1948

PART V.

Amendments of the Unemployment Assistance Acts, 1933 to 1940.

Interpretation of Part V.

30. —(1) In this Part—

the expression “the Acts” means the Unemployment Assistance Acts, 1933 to 1940;

the expression “the Principal Act” means the Unemployment Assistance Act, 1933 (No. 46 of 1933).

(2) This Part shall be construed as one with the Acts.

Amendment of meaning in the Acts of a continuous period of unemployment.

31. —For the purposes of the Acts—

(a) any three days (including three days of which one or two is or are before the date of the passing of this Act) of unemployment, whether consecutive or not, within a period of six consecutive days shall be treated as a continuous period of unemployment, and

(b) any such continuous period of unemployment and either another such continuous period of unemployment or a continuous period of unemployment before the date of the passing of this Act, being separated by a period of not more than twenty weeks, shall be treated as one continuous period of unemployment, and

(c) the expression “continuously unemployed” shall be construed accordingly.

Alteration of rates of unemployment assistance.

32. —(1) There shall be inserted in section 17 of the Principal Act, as subsection (1) thereof, the following subsection:—

“(1) (a) In this section the expression ‘the scheduled rate’ means the rate of unemployment assistance stated in the Schedule to this Act which is, in the circumstances for the time being existing, applicable to the person in respect of whom the expression is used.

(b) Where a house owned by the corporation of a county or other borough or the council of an urban district or the commissioners of a town is situate outside such county or other borough, urban district or town (as the case may be), a person for the time being residing in such house shall, for the purposes of the Schedule to this Act, be deemed to be resident in such county or other borough, urban district or town, and not elsewhere.”

(2) There shall be inserted in the Principal Act, as the Schedule thereto, the particulars set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act.

Amendment of section 10 of the Principal Act.

33. —Where a house owned by the corporation of a county borough or of the borough of Dun Laoghaire is situate outside such county borough or the borough of Dun Laoghaire (as the case may be), a person for the time being resident in such house shall, for the purposes of paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of section 10 of the Principal Act, be deemed to be resident in such county borough or the borough of Dun Laoghaire (as the case may be) and not elsewhere.

Amendment of section 15 of the Principal Act.

34. —Where a house owned by the corporation or the council of an urban area is situate outside such urban area, then, for the purposes of paragraph (e) (inserted by subsection (1) of section 7 of the Unemployment Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1940 (No. 4 of 1940) of subsection (1) of section 15 of the Principal Act—

(a) a person resident in such house shall be deemed to be resident in such urban area and not elsewhere,

(b) a person who has during any period been ordinarily resident in such house shall be deemed to have been during that period ordinarily resident in such urban area and not elsewhere.

Amendment of section 16 of the Principal Act.

35. —The following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (2) of section 16 of the Principal Act:—

“(2) A person who loses his employment through his misconduct, or who voluntarily leaves his employment without just cause shall be disqualified for receiving unemployment assistance for the period of three months or such shorter period (not being less than one week) as may be determined under this Act from the date when he so lost or left his employment,”